Plextor Europe officially announces: PlexWriter 48/24/48A
Plextor has send us a press release of their latest drive the PlexWriter 48/24/48A. While other sites tend to post incorrect and inaccurate information we can now tell you the exact features of this latest Plextor model.
Plextor seems to be clearly focussing on the quality of the written disc (PoweRec, VariRec, Adapted "writing power" temperature dependable) and the accesstime of less then 65 ms seems to be really really fast. Also support for more media seems something that might be something that is appreciated by a lot of consumers, as for now Plextors were pretty picky with media:
Plextor continues with: altough the speed is able to read at 48x, the default setting will be 40x. This is because the drive its lifecycle will be decreased at 48x reading speed. Also the level of noise is higher at 48x speed then at 40x speed.
Besides that, CDs with scratches or bad quality can explode at 48x speed. (9.600 RPM) To prevent this, the PlexWriter 48/24/48A has an extra strong front bezel. An user who wants to read at 48x can still do this by using the function SpeedRead which is available by software and hardware.
The price of all this will be 149 EURO excl. VAT.
Source: Plextor
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Posted by onebyside on Tuesday 06 August 2002 20:23
amazing....48X....things are moving so fast(no pun)
Posted by Warped on Tuesday 06 August 2002 22:04
I think the increase to 24x for CDRW is probably the strongest selling point here. Hopefully there will be a decent supply of media for it.
Posted by Enojado on Wednesday 07 August 2002 00:25
I just bought the 40X. Dang I should've waited 2 more weeks. I wonder if it will be able to handle Safedisc 2.51 like the Lite-ON drives?
Posted by Nila on Wednesday 07 August 2002 02:37
yeah, the 24x RW is definitely the strongest selling point I think as my 12x R is plenty for me. The 4x RW I have though is annoying so a 24x RW would definitely be something that would make me consider upgrading.
The Plex's are alot though, they're going for over £100 whereas the Liteon 40x can be bought for like £45. REALLY makes you wonder just how much better made they are when you can buy almost 3 liteons for the same price.
The Plex's are alot though, they're going for over £100 whereas the Liteon 40x can be bought for like £45. REALLY makes you wonder just how much better made they are when you can buy almost 3 liteons for the same price.
Posted by Hypnosis4U2NV on Wednesday 07 August 2002 04:09
Just buy a drive that is just as good as a Plextor.. Buy Lite-ON..
I dont need a 2 year warranty when I could just buy another lite-on drive (probably a much better and improved version) in a year and still be costing less than a Plextor..
Plus PLxtor is really serious with their warranty.. Keep your receipt cause if your drive breaks a day after the manufacture date of the drive, they want to see proof..
I dont need a 2 year warranty when I could just buy another lite-on drive (probably a much better and improved version) in a year and still be costing less than a Plextor..
Plus PLxtor is really serious with their warranty.. Keep your receipt cause if your drive breaks a day after the manufacture date of the drive, they want to see proof..
Posted by TBZ on Wednesday 07 August 2002 05:11
FINALLY a new drive from plextor and it's really nice to see that plextor finally has a CAV capable drive as well. I just wished that they'd have an 8MB buffer like the Yamahas and also FULL overburning support to 99 minutes and not just going half the distance at 94.55... :-
Posted by MrJoshua on Wednesday 07 August 2002 09:18
Below 65ms access times, id like to see that. Plexies are renound for there terrible access times. If this is true, then the boys at plextor have been working real hard.
cheers
cheers
Posted by Zyron on Wednesday 07 August 2002 10:53
Iv'e allways liked Plextor very much, but i can say that Lite-on are giving more bang for the bucks at the moment....
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